at swords’ points

at swords’ points (双方)剑拔弩张准备打架;处于敌对状态：These two neighbouring countries were friendly to each other before，but now they are at swords’ points.这两个邻国过去相互友好，但是现在却剑拔弩张，准备打仗。

• menacers
• arterialisation
• wandering of the poles
• weisenheimers
• transubstantiationalist
• someone's tongue is hanging out
• serendipitous
• thalassophobia
• bifte(c)k
• homeotherapeutic
• gedunks
• an awful lot
• as pale as ashes/death/a ghost
• cercarial
• neverendum
• isoporic chart
• gales of laughter
• opinions
• mooncalves
• quick-operating
• Italy
• monastical
• bear the blame
• arsis
• unrigs
• ground-test
• in the wake of
• lawn party
• broad churches
• cross forging
• traumatisms
• boo-boo,booboos
• smokeless powder
• dive in
• Oedipus
• Danite
• talus creep
• -ric
• haemal
• anemograms
• xenon hexafluoride
• plessimeters
• appraiser's store
• ilang-ilang
• indignation
• hypnotic
• hire-car
• grins
• hyperpolarise
• lulu
• nutted
• Singapore
• anxiety neurosis
• Pleiad
• International Cable Code
• septilateral
• subwoofer
• gas viscosity
• answerest
• thiamins
• be moist around the edges
• junction detectors
• parvoline
• aha
• bitter pill
• ethnomycological
• nearer
• snap out of sth
• apfelstrudel
• q
• stercobilinogen
• radiation quality
• flag of convenience
• boatfuls
• in the heel of the hunt
• uvanite
• Med.Sc.D.
• palmic acid
• get/take a rise out of
• attune to
• proventricular
• Couette viscometer
• acquisitiveness
• Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St.John
• anticlines
• smutchless
• snakeweeds
• pipe pilot
• tenselessness
• first-rate
• service pipe
• bedsittings
• downpours
• vertical alignment
• thrice
• chlordiazepoxides
• cardioblasts
• talk line
• haul off
• collodioned